"This silly business of trying to go on with a skeleton crew."

"How long will Lester keep up this silly business of having me watched by a common private detective."

Now you hope to prove that I am dead, else this silly business would never have come up.

Because we're going to cut through the fog on this silly business.

Actually, no one is likely to take this piece of silly business very seriously.

"That silly business about you having a proper respect for grammar?"

The troops had achieved their silent concentration, and the silly business must now begin.

"There was a silly business at the end of the day."

Yet they were both in the enlightened fringe of the whole silly business.